niqués
\ni.ke\
The verdict
“niqués” is uncommon French (frequency #86,963 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,963
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de niquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niques · niqués · French
niqués · rank #86,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,963
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nikolay
Nearest frequency peer: Nikolay (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « niqués »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nescafé
nescafé
13,042 corpus weight
- Neyret
Neyret
13,041 corpus weight
- Nikolay
Nikolay
13,039 corpus weight
- niqués
niqués
13,038 corpus weight
- nourrissante
nourrissante
13,034 corpus weight
- novus
novus
13,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niqués » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niqués |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ni.ke\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niqués » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niqués is uncommon French at frequency #86,963 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ni.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de niquer.".
niqués has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is niqués, spelled N-I-Q-U-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de niquer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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